Used Book – The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Molière

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Sganarelle is definitely a bad husband: he drinks and beats his wife Martine, who decides to get revenge. She devises a plan: to pass off her woodcutter husband as a prodigious doctor...

In a farcical tone and at a brisk pace, Molière delivers a very funny satire of the medicine of his time.

Educational objectives:

- A study of Martine's initial lie and its consequences - An approach to master/servant relationships - An act-by-act analysis to dismantle the mechanisms of comedy and understand how farce is used to criticize medicine and doctors.

Curriculum themes related to the title:

6th grade – Resisting the strong: tricks, lies, and masks 5th grade – With others: families, friends, networks In addition: Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife."

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